Ding Lili described the disaster area very clearly, and Yu Sui felt much more at ease.
As long as the injuries were not serious, it would always be possible to rebuild the houses. It would just take some time and money. The country would take care of it, and it was not something that an ordinary citizen like her needed to worry about.
Yu Sui stood up and handed Ding Lili a cup of brown sugar water: "Drink some to stay energetic."
Ding Lili: "You really know how to enjoy yourself. My mom and I didn't dare leave the tent, for fear that if it happened again, it would all be over. It seems that only you are always away from the tent. I didn't know until the two people living with you came to my mom and talked about you several times."
Yu Sui shrugged. "What did you say about me? I don't follow the rules or I don't fit in?"
Ding Lili: "You don't follow the rules and you don't fit in. The kids are arguing, and you get mad at me. You even say you'll see what you'll do when you have kids!"
Yu Sui shook her head. "These women can't take care of their own children, and they only know how to blame others. There are five children in total, so it's not just a few quarrels. Take the first night for example, when I arrived, the two families had already occupied all the space in the tent, each side, filled with things.
I thought that since they had children, their space should be bigger, and she just needed to make room for me to sleep. However, one of my sisters-in-law said that she had three children, so she needed a bigger place; the other said that her children were all grown up, so they needed to take up more space, and neither of them moved.
I said, "No matter how big you need me, since the logistics department arranged for me to come in, you have to make room for me. If you don't move, I'll do it myself." I swept the things in the middle and slept in the middle. Then, the child on the left would lie on my bed all day, and the child on the right would urinate on my bed at night. During this special period, I endured all of this.
But what I couldn't stand was when the mess hall's 倲志 came to distribute steamed buns, the older child from the second deputy battalion commander's family grabbed a bun without even washing his hands after defecating. His mother said, "Hey, leave a few for others." Then the child opened each bun and looked at it, keeping the ones with meat and giving the ones without meat to me. "What do you think, should I eat it or not?"
Ding Lili also started shaking her head as she listened: "Tsk, I can't stand this kind of thing either."
Yu Sui sighed, "You have to understand, it was only the first day. Every day after that will only get worse. Nothing will get better. If I don't do it, I won't be able to live or eat."
"Why don't you go back and pretend? If there's discord among the family members, the government will also talk to you, Xia Linsheng. My mother has also nagged me a bit, so I thought I'd better come and talk to you."
"Thank you, Lily. I understand. Let them talk for now. I'll figure it out when the time comes."
"Ha, seeing you're so confident, I don't care about you anymore. To be honest, I want to go back home. Living in a tent like this is really not fun. Will the earthquake come? I have to wait until the next day!"
Yu Sui pursed her lips, watching Ding Lili sip the sugar water with such gusto, and couldn't help but say, "Just wait and see, there won't be any trouble. Anyway, I plan to take you back to live in the house starting today, but since you're the leader's child, I guess I'll have to keep you here for show."
"I...I don't want to live in a tent either. Hey, how do you know there's no earthquake? What if there's another earthquake?"
"I didn't say for sure. If you're worried, just stay in the tent."
"Hmph, you bastard, let me put it this way. I'll follow you. If you still live in your own house, I'll live in yours."
Yu Sui was frightened by Ding Lili's words.
She didn't want to take this kind of trouble:
"That won't do! If something goes wrong, I won't be able to bear the consequences. Besides, you're not going to be with me, and you still have your mother to take care of. Well, after hearing what you said, I'd better go back and pretend. Oh, by the way, I have a bag of dried meat at home. I wanted to buy it and send it back to my family last time, but the earthquake happened and we weren't allowed to leave the compound, so I didn't send it. Now is an emergency, and your mother has to set an example. It's not a good time to leave for the time being. You can give it to your mother to eat, and keep it safe. Don't let anyone see it."
Yu Sui went back to the inner room and got some things. She stuffed one bag into Ding Lili's pocket and put the other bag in her own pocket.
Ding Lili hadn't eaten meat for several days. The dried meat and sweet soup here from Yu Sui whetted her appetite. She accepted it immediately and was very happy.
The two of them went back to the playground together.
Ding Lili returned to her own tent, and Yu Sui entered the one assigned to her.
As she had expected, her middle bunk was a mess.
There was a pile of dirty clothes from a very young child, two dirty socks from adults, and even a muddy leather ball.
The adults from both families were there, but the older children had gone out to play, so the tent was a little quieter than it had been at mealtime.
Yu Sui walked to her bedside, silently put the ball on the ground, and first took the child's dirty clothes and put them in the room on the left.
The one on the left is Mrs. Zhao, holding her three-year-old child and feeding her.
She looked at the dirty clothes that Yu Sui brought over, and twitched the corners of her mouth: "Oh, I'm sorry, Yu Sui, if you don't sleep, I will leave the child's things with you."
Yu Sui smiled: "Sister Zhao, it's because you always put the children's things here with me that I won't sleep."
Mrs. Zhao frowned: "Yu Sui, look at what you said. The side you live in was originally allocated to me. I have three children, and there are four of us. If we divide it by the number of people, then you should sleep on the other side, so that there are four of you!"
Yu Sui looked behind her.
The sister-in-law on the right immediately turned her eyes away, as if she was not looking at them.
Yu Sui tucked the ball under her armpit, picked up two dirty socks with her fingertips and walked them over to her sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, are these ball and socks yours?"
My sister-in-law uttered a syllable through her nose, "hmm", and then there was no more sound.
Yu Sui was not annoyed. She put the things on her sister-in-law's bed and turned around to go back to her own bunk.
Behind him, his sister-in-law swept the ball and dirty socks to the ground with a "swish", and then let out another heavy "snort".
Yu Sui pretended not to hear and didn't even look at her. She just put the pillow and quilt behind her, took out a book from her left pocket and a small paper bag from her right pocket. She read a few pages of the book, then took something out of the small paper bag and took a few bites. She looked like she was eating it with great relish.
The other two women deliberately smashed things around to express their dissatisfaction with Yu Sui for not sharing the food with them.
About half an hour later, the four children came back.
They suddenly saw Yu Sui eating, and the children swallowed their saliva, then went to their mothers to ask for food.
Here he said, "Mom, I'm so hungry."
The other side said: "Mom, what's there to eat? I want to eat it."
"Give me something to eat, I want something delicious!"
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